8 of the last 10 SEC East champs have gone 7-1 or better in the SEC

#51
#51
10-2 could get us to the SECCG but isn't the goal playoffs and national championship? We need to be no less than 11-1 going into it. Unless..

What about this scenario? Does a 10-2 tennessee team beating an undefeated Alabama/LSU team in the SECCG get us discussion for the playoffs?
 
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utknate said:
10-2 could get us to the SECCG but isn't the goal playoffs and national championship? We need to be no less than 11-1 going into it. Unless..

What about this scenario? Does a 10-2 tennessee team beating an undefeated Alabama/LSU team in the SECCG get us discussion for the playoffs?
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Probably not unless every other major conference champion plus Notre Dame has two or more losses (or there's a really, really weak 1-loss conference champion).
 
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TrueOrange said:
Agree on everything but the bold part. The "highest ranking" SEC tiebreaker for divisions was gotten rid of after the BCS's last year.


If a three way tie runs that deep into the divisional tiebreaker - past those like head to head records versus the tied teams, divisional record, competition level within the division (the more confusing one), overall record against opposite division teams - the tiebreaker now is the combined SEC records of the two opposite division (West) teams each team played.
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Thanks. I didn't know they'd changed it.
 
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utknate said:
10-2 could get us to the SECCG but isn't the goal playoffs and national championship? We need to be no less than 11-1 going into it. Unless..

What about this scenario? Does a 10-2 tennessee team beating an undefeated Alabama/LSU team in the SECCG get us discussion for the playoffs?
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At this point the playoff is gravy. If UT can win the SEC.... I'm a happy man.
 
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utknate said:
10-2 could get us to the SECCG but isn't the goal playoffs and national championship? We need to be no less than 11-1 going into it. Unless..
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That's another great team goal, of course, but each goal stands on its own.

This thread has been about the goal of winning the SEC-East and getting to Atlanta.
 
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utknate said:
. . . What about this scenario? Does a 10-2 tennessee team beating an undefeated Alabama/LSU team in the SECCG get us discussion for the playoffs?
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If that happened, I believe that Tennessee would almost certainly be the highest ranked 2-loss team. The rest would just depend on how everyone else faired.

The better story would be how the committee viewed the West winner, as they would have just lost in the SEC CG. Obviously, a 1-loss SEC team has to be highly considered for the final four, but how do you select a team over the team that just beat them in the conference championship? It does make for good sports talk fodder.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
If that happened, I believe that Tennessee would almost certainly be the highest ranked 2-loss team. The rest would just depend on how everyone else faired.

The better story would be how the committee viewed the West winner, as they would have just lost in the SEC CG. Obviously, a 1-loss SEC team has to be highly considered for the final four, but how do you select a team over the team that just beat them in the conference championship? It does make for good sports talk fodder.
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A hectic scenario would be 11-1 Tennessee beats Undefeated Alabama with an 11-1 LSU waiting in the wings that only lost to Alabama. I wouldn't want to be on the committee in that situation. But you can do a million what ifs until the season starts. I'm just ready for some football.

I'm most excited to see Jakob in the tight end rotation though
 
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utknate said:
A hectic scenario would be 11-1 Tennessee beats Undefeated Alabama with an 11-1 LSU waiting in the wings that only lost to Alabama. I wouldn't want to be on the committee in that situation. But you can do a million what ifs until the season starts. I'm just ready for some football.

I'm most excited to see Jakob in the tight end rotation though
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Kudos :good!:
 
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Just make the SEC Championship game and it's an outstanding season. East or bust period. Do I want an SEC and NC? Yes, but I'll just take a championship level football team again.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
2010 South Carolina
2007 Tennessee

That's it.

Going all the way back to 2006, those are the only teams to drop 2 games in conference and still make the SEC championship game. Everyone else has needed to go 7-1 or better to win the East.

So for everyone trying to downplay expectations by saying 10-2 is the goal, just realize you're essentially conceding the East with that prediction.

Because unless you think we're losing to Va-Tech, 2 losses in-conference will doom our chances to get to Atlanta.

11-1 is the benchmark. That will define whether this was a good season. Not 10-2.
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I think that D4H is spot on here with one exception, TN could lose to Bama and TAM and win the East. But, if they lose to one West team and GA, it ain't happening. No way GA loses 3 conference games this year, not with their schedule.
 
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Nasavol said:
I think that D4H is spot on here with one exception, TN could lose to Bama and TAM and win the East. But, if they lose to one West team and GA, it ain't happening. No way GA loses 3 conference games this year, not with their schedule.
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Georgia could already have 2 losses in conference by the time they get to October 1st and their game against us.

Oh yeah, they could lose 3 SEC games this season.
 
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Nasavol said:
I think that D4H is spot on here with one exception, TN could lose to Bama and TAM and win the East. But, if they lose to one West team and GA, it ain't happening. No way GA loses 3 conference games this year, not with their schedule.
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Well, not necessarily. 2011 South Carolina comes to mind.
 
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We can spin a multitude of scenarios, but odds are, if we lose to UF or UGA, we are unlikely to control our own destiny in the East.

If we go 10-2, our losses probably will be the games where we are projected to be dogs-- UGA and Bama. So the road to ATL really runs through Athens-- assuming, of course, that we finally give the Gators the buttchomping that is three years overdue.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Georgia could already have 2 losses in conference by the time they get to October 1st and their game against us.

Oh yeah, they could lose 3 SEC games this season.
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They could, but, I would put money on 2 SEC losses tops for GA. You guys are so fixated on FL that you are losing sight of GA, who is the better team, and I agree that the road to the SEC CG goes thru Athens.
 
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So we have to beat everyone except bama. That should be easy! The struggles of having to play #1 every year
 
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